Fiji, sentence 136
From Wikipedia, «Fiji», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
These settlers' expectation of dominating by force led them to form several aggressive, racially motivated groups, such as the British Subjects Mutual Protection Society.
Who acts: expectation, settlers · What happens: dominate, lead, form, motivate, expect · To what, where: settlers, several aggressive motivated groups
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Fiji». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (expectation, settlers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 settlers | det |
| 2 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 expectation | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 settlers | case |
| 4 | expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 dominating | mark |
| 6 | dominating | dominate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 expectation | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 force | case |
| 8 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dominating | obl |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 form | mark |
| 12 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 led | advcl |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 groups | amod |
| 14 | aggressive | aggressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 groups | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 groups | punct |
| 16 | racially | racially | ADV | _ | 17 motivated | advmod |
| 17 | motivated | motivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 groups | amod |
| 18 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 form | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Subjects | punct |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 24 Subjects | case |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 such | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Subjects | det |
| 23 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Subjects | amod |
| 24 | Subjects | Subject | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 groups | nmod |
| 25 | Mutual | Mutual | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Protection | compound |
| 26 | Protection | Protection | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Society | compound |
| 27 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Subjects | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | gerund | this settlers's expectation not said here | by force | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | this settlers's expectation | settlers = settler | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | this settlers's expectation not said here | several aggressive motivated groups | such the British Subjects Protection Society | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location group=Theme | |||
| 4 | motivate | participle | racially property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | expect | this settlers | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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